Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands最新文献

{"title":"The Amphibia of Trinidad","authors":"J. Kenny","doi":"10.2307/1442340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1442340","url":null,"abstract":"Compared with the other vertebrate groups the Amphibia of the island of Trinidad are relatively poorly known. There have been four surveys of the group, one in the last century and the others in the earlier part of the present. The earliest is that of MOLE & URICH (1894) in which twelve species are listed and a brief account given of the breeding habits of one species, and another species listed later in the same source. Approximately thirty years later Roux (1926) examined a collection made by KUGLER and reported fourteen species. A year later LUTZ (1927) visited the island and made a collection listing fourteen species giving brief notes on their distribution. Apart from these references, which are essentially nothing more than lists of species, there has been only one comprehensive study of the group, that of PARKER (1933) which was based on collections made by URICH and VESEY-FITZGERALD, in which twentythree species are listed and in which a key to identification is presented. A year later PARKER (1934) reviewed a minor taxonomic problem and described a new species of Gastrotheca from the island. There are, of course, scattered references to Trinidad amphibia in the literature falling generally into two groups, those dealing with limited collections or particular aspects of life histories of individual species and those in which particular groups of species are being reviewed. In the former category are the papers of BEEBE (1952), DITMARS (1941), GANS (1956), KENNY (1956 and 1966) and in the latter those of DUELLMAN (1956), DUNN (1949), FUNKHOUSER (1957), GALLARDO (1961 and 1965), PARKER (1937) and RIVERO (1961). There is no doubt that there is need for a general study and review of the Amphibia of the island. Since PARKER’S study was published, the names of nine of the twenty-three species have been altered in one way or another, some even at the generic level, while two hitherto unrecorded species have been found. Apart from this, however, there has been surprisingly little recorded on general life histories of the Trinidad species or of mainland representatives of these species. Admittedly some species are comparatively well known but these are mostly forms with peculiar life histories or habits, for example Pipa pipa, Pseudis paradoxus and possibly Bufo marinus, which would attract the attention of herpetologists. Nevertheless, the bulk of the species remain nothing more than names in taxonomic reviews. While the adult forms may be fairly well known taxonomically, most of the tadpoles are still unknown. A search of the literature, both of Trinidad forms as well as mainland forms has revealed descriptions only of three forms.","PeriodicalId":227099,"journal":{"name":"Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128414448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ants from the Leeward Group and some other Caribbean localities","authors":"N. A. Weber","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.25023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.25023","url":null,"abstract":"The smaller islands of the Caribbean Sea support relatively few species of ants. Even in the largest island in the West Indies, Cuba, there were in 1934 only about 90 forms (species, subspecies and „varieties”) known and this number has not been greatly increased since. During the 1930’s there were recorded in the entire West Indies some 450 forms and at the present time the number can hardly much exceed 500. By way of comparison, the most recent enumeration of ants of the United States (1947) shows 742 kinds. The larger proportion of these West Indian ants occur on such islands as Hispaniola which offer varied and stable habitats. The small islands have relatively few species and these are in the large part common tropicopolitan forms which tend to drive out the endemic species. Few endemic species appear to remain in the Lesser Antilles, for example. Although dr HUMMELINCK told me he was not trying to gather representative material — especially on the islands of Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire, in which collecting has been done in 1930 by dr H. J. MACGILLAVRY and the late dr L. W. J. VERMUNT — the present collection is of particular interest since it was made on many small islands whose ant fauna was hitherto completely unknown. A few records from the adjacent mainland and some other localities are also included (see Table 7). The value of the Caribbean records is enhanced by the fact that ant populations on small islands may tend to vary from time to time or to be replaced by populations of other species, not to speak of the possibility of speciation itself taking place in geographically isolated places. They also record the presence of specific cosmopolitan „vagrants” on specific islands and some of these ants are still spreading.","PeriodicalId":227099,"journal":{"name":"Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116758159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Ecology of Coenobita Clypeatus in Curaçao","authors":"P. Wilde","doi":"10.1007/978-94-017-6768-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6768-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227099,"journal":{"name":"Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127784784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}